IMAGINATION - can help decrease pain

 IMAGINATION is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Always remember , " everything which is real now was imagined first". The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

A psychologist at Leden University Kaya Peerdeman made a funny discovery when she was studying the placebo effect. It turned out that if you imagine that having an injection is painless, you actually might have less pain. This was proven during an experiment where participants were asked to put their arm in cold water for some time. Then, they were asked to do this again but while imagining that their arms are protected by waterproof gloves. Surprisingly enough, the placebo effect worked and the participants really experienced less pain when they put their arms in the cold water while using their imagination.

Peerdeman is planning to check this method of pain relief using the imagination on real pateints who are about to surgery.

Not only this , the story of cartoon Nobita and Doraemon is also based on real-life incidence. Nobita was suffering from schizophrenia ( disorder in which a person has less ability to think, feel and behave clearly ). Because of his mental condition his friends left him and became lonely. Due to this loneliness and disease his mental condition forced him to imagine a chracter of Doraemon, who can help him in every possible way and making his ( imaginary ) best friend.